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Processing of Primary Brain Tumor Tissue for Stem Cell Assays and Flow Sorting
Published on: September 25, 2012
Brainstem gliomas in children and adults
Florence Laigle-Donadey1, François Doz, Jean-Yves Delattre
1Service de Neurologie Mazarin, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière - APHP, Département d'Oncologie Pédiatrique, Institut Curie and Faculté de Médecine Paris V René Descartes, France. florence.laigle-donadey@psl.aphp.fr
Purpose Of Review:
The purpose of this review is to determine if recent advances in diagnostic and treatment modalities result in improvement in the pattern of care of brainstem gliomas.
Recent Findings:
New MRI techniques may contribute to differential diagnosis and aid neurosurgeons in removing resectable brainstem tumors. A better radiological analysis of these heterogeneous tumors improves their classification and helps to better distinguish prognosis subgroups. However, biopsy remains indicated in many contrast enhancing brainstem masses in adults because of the great variety of differential diagnosis.
Summary:
Diffuse brainstem glioma is the most common subtype of brainstem tumor and remains a devastating malignancy in children. Conventional radiotherapy is the standard of care and chemotherapy has been disappointing to date. Given the lack of efficacy of conventional drugs, a better understanding of the biology of this tumor is the key to more targeted therapy.
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